KIRKUS REVIEW

If your friend’s dead body falls in
the woods and nobody is around to see which of you pulled the trigger, what
will your story be?

In an after-party haze of booze and
drugs, five white, wealthy best friends go hunting in the River Point woods—only
four return. With one of the boys, Grant, shot dead in an apparent accident and
no one willing to admit responsibility, Logan, Henry, John Michael, and Shep vow
to keep silent in order to protect their remaining group and the killer among
them. But secrets have a way of burrowing through bonds, and the tightknit
foursome, dubbed the River Point Boys, has already started to unravel.
Meanwhile, budding photojournalist and white senior Kate Marino is interning at
the district attorney’s office, where her boss is assigned the River Point
case. The DA wants the case to disappear quietly, but Kate is determined see
justice done. As she assists with examining the boys’ behavior during
interrogations and in person, she discovers that nothing about the case, the
suspects, or even her own connection to the boys is what it seems. The
narration alternates between Kate’s fervent suspicions and a River Point Boy’s
cold manipulation, leaving readers to wade through the many vengeful motives
that spill from a wellspring of affluence, privilege, and corruption.

Chilling and suspenseful, with just the right
number of twists. (Mystery. 13-17)

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